Seventh
grader Kay Garber's happy home is made up of four generations of women:
Great
Gran Eula; Grandma Margie; Kay's mother, Karine; and Kay. But on the
evening
Grandma Margie tells her family she has a lump in her breast, Kay's
world is
changed forever.

Struggling
with issues of popularity in junior high school, trying to understand
her
too-perfect mother, dealing with her feelings about friends, and coming
to terms
with Grandma Margie's cancer diagnosis and illness, Kay is awhirl with
questions
that have no easy answers. But Kay is a survivor, and as she journeys
through
these difficult months she comes to a new understanding of the
complexities and
importance of faith and family.

Told
through forthright and perceptive poems in Kay's own voice, Loose
Threads
reverberates with emotion and depth and will no reader untouched.

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When Grandma Margie tells her loving family
she has a lump in her breast the family try to think positive. But when
the doctors diagnose Grandma Margie with cancer Kay feels like her life
is falling to pieces.

At school Kay’s friends try
to be supportive but begin ignoring her. At home every one is preparing
for Grandma Margie’s operation. Together, Kay and Grandma Margie love
walking down to the river and letting the fish nibble at the bread on
the hook. They try to keep away from the subject of cancer and enjoy
being together. After the operation the family begin getting back to
normal. But after another check up the doctors have more bad news, the
cancer is back.

At school Kay is struggling
with issues of popularity. She cannot understand her friend’s cruel
actions towards the odd girl out, Hattie and slowly Kay ends up on her
own.

At home things are getting
worse. Grandma Margie is undergoing chemotherapy and needs constant
care. Kay begins missing school to be with Grandma Margie. Kay is sent
a card from all her teachers and old friends.

When Grandma Margie passes
away surrounded by her family Kay cannot understand why God taken her
away. But slowly Gran Eula, Karine and Kay put their life together
again.

Loose Threads is a very sad but moving book. It definitely illustrates
the horrors of cancer very well. I recommend this book for people who
like very deep and meaningful books. I suggest it for readers of my age
and older as the reader needs to be mature because it is a very
emotional book.